Introduction

This is the preliminary plan for migrating Research Drive instances to Nextcloud. In the planning we have considered the vacation period and summer holidays. It is important that the institute administrators are present on the week of the migration for potential user support.

Change in the plan

If you are not available on the planned date, please submit your preferred date/week to use before Wednesday 16th April, and we will try to plan the migration of your environment on another date.

Impact

The expected downtime depends on the size of your Research Drive environment. For small environments, we expect 2 hours aof downtime nd for larger environments, several hours of downtime. We plan to start the migration early in the morning to have the whole day ahead of us and try to keep the downtime to a minimum. However, please take into account that due to the migration, the service may go into maintenance mode anytime on the planned migration date.

Note

Please take into account that due to the migration, the service may go into maintenance mode anytime on the planned migration date.

Communication

We will communicate 2 weeks before the migration to the admins OF the environments in the RD user group mailing list. Communication to the end users can be done by the institute's admins.

During the migration, a placeholder in the web interface will be shown to users to users of the environment that they should try a few hours later.

Migration Plan (Preliminary)

Migration phase


Environments

Start date

Status

Phase 1 (week 19)
SURF internal

SURF Aperture

SURF Demo

 

Done


Phase 2 (week 20)

KNAW

Saxion

 

 

Done

Phase 3 (week21)

SURF Community Edition

 

Done

Monitoring for 1 week (week 22)

-

 

-

Phase 4 (week 23)

HAS

ZUYD

Fontys

 

 


Phase 5 (week 24)

Hogeschool Zeeland

Windesheim

Open Universiteit

 

 

 


Phase 6 (week 25)

Hogeschool Rotterdam

Aeres Hogeschool

Hogeschool Inholland

 

 

 


Phase 7 (week 26)

BUAS

Avans

TU/e

 

 


Phase 8 (week 27)

ROC van Twente 

Deltares

Hogeschool Utrecht

Nyenrode

 

 

 

 


Phase 9 (week 28)

HHS

Hogeschool Leiden

PBL

RIVM

 

 

  


Phase 10 (week 29)

UU

KNMI

EUR

 

 

 


Vakantie Zuid

5 juli t/m 17 augustus 2025

Vakantie Noord

12 juli t/m 24 augustus 2025

Vakantie Midden

19 juli t/m 31 augustus 2025


Week 30
(21 jul - 24 jul)

Optional week


Phase 11 (week 35)

CHE

NHLStenden

Radiant

Hanze

Amsterdam UMC

HAN

 

 

 

 

 


Phase 12  (weel 36)

HvA

Tilburg University

Universiteit Leiden

 

 

 


Phase 13 (week 37)

VU

 


Phase 14 (week 38)

Last environments to migrate 

(SURF internal)

UvA

SURF Test

SURF Miskatonic

 

 

 



During the maintenance

During the migration, the environment is completely unavailable. A maintenance page will be displayed, in the color style of your environment, similar to image below.
After the migration, we will contact the dashboard admins of the environment. With a selected group, we would like to ask you to check the environment then.
Some basic questions to pay attention to, see also the full test plan.

  • Can you log in via SURFconext as you are familiar with ?
  • Is all your data and shares there as expected ?
  • Can you open files with the Text Editor and Collabora Office Online?
  • Can you create a new document and share it with someone?